Arthur Norman Prior, usually cited as A.N. Prior, was a New Zealand-born logician and philosopher who founded tense logic, also known as temporal logic, in his 1957 work and went on to make significant contributions to intensional logic, particularly in his 1971 book. His formal treatment of how tense and time interact with logical inference opened a field that later logicians and philosophers of language continued to develop long after his death.
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The first New Zealand-born logician, Prior was the founding father of logic in New Zealand and also a driving force behind the renaissance in British logic from 1956.
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Arthur Norman Prior (4 December 1914-6 October 1969), usually cited as A.
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Philosophical logic, modal logic
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Analytic philosophy
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